Account executive

Overall role description:

Ideally, you will have a knowledge of paid-media, digital media or general marketing and advertising. Experience within health and/or pharmaceutical advertising and marketing would be advantageous, though not essential (training will be provided). We are looking for someone who encapsulates all of these skills:

• Excellent verbal and written communications skills and ability to express ideas clearly
• Excellent numeracy skills and accuracy
• Good interpersonal skills and ability to work as part of a team
• Commercial awareness
• Initiative and ability to identify issues and develop solutions
• Creativity and ability to generate ideas
• Good organisational skills with a strong attention to detail
• Desire to learn about all areas of the business
• Ability to handle a busy workload, prioritise and be flexible
• Good level of proficiency with required IT packages: Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Word
• Multi-lingual would be advantageous

Key aspects of the role:

• Ensure the smooth running of your client team supporting the account manager, director and other members of the team
• Source crucial information and provide organisational excellence to ensure flawless planning and execution of media campaigns
• Create proposals and reports in PowerPoint and contribute towards visually appealing media plans using Excel
• Attend meetings and provide a clear outline of deliverables thereafter, as well as presenting ideas/outcomes to clients where appropriate
• Understand and contribute towards recommendations to maximise success for your client
• Identifying opportunities via media monitoring and active networking
• Liaise with key stakeholders (publishers, creative agencies, internal teams) to ensure key campaign milestones are reached and client is fully informed of the status of their account
• Manipulate, analyse and interpret data in Excel
• Deliver a high standard of data reporting based on working with both campaign data and existing data sources delivered in both written and verbal format
• Develop your understanding of healthcare systems, pharmaceutical advertising and therapy areas that are relevant to your client